Meet your web browser.
Your little window to the internet. Tabs, cookies, and updates, made simple.
THE AHA MOMENT
A little clarity. A big difference.A browser is your window to websites. A search engine helps you find them.
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge are browser apps. Tabs keep several pages open, and busy tabs share your computer’s memory and processing power. A search engine, such as Google, is a website you visit inside your browser.
The busy browser
Open, move, and close colorful tabs to explore how background work adds up.
Drag pages into the browser. Watch their background work add up.
YOUR LITTLE LABThis is the page you are using right now.
A little experiment is the best way to learn. Give something a try.
Your window to the web
A browser is the app that requests websites and turns their code into pages you can read and use. Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge are examples. A search engine is a website you can open inside a browser.
What tabs are doing
Each tab holds a page. Some pages keep working in the background, so a large collection of busy tabs can use memory and processing power. Closing tabs you do not need can help.
Cookies and cached files
Cookies store small pieces of site data, such as a sign-in session or preference. The cache keeps copies of resources so the browser does not need to download everything again. Clearing them can help troubleshoot a site, but clearing cookies may sign you out.
Private browsing has limits
Private windows reduce what the browser saves locally after you close them. They do not make you anonymous to websites, your employer, or your internet provider.
One easy habit
Keep automatic updates enabled. Browser updates include security fixes as well as new features.